Abstract
On 30 December 2002, a 25-30 × 106 m3 landslide on the NW flank of Stromboli volcano produced a tsunami that caused relevant damage to the Stromboli village and to the neighboring islands of the Aeolian archipelago. The NW flank of Stromboli has been the site of several, cubic kilometer-scale, landslides during the past 13 ka. In this paper we present sedimentological and compositional data of deep-sea cores recovered from a site located about 24 km north of the island. Our preliminary results indicate that: (i) turbidity currents were effectively generated by the large-scale failures and (ii) volcanogenic turbidity current deposits retain clues of the landslide source and slope failure dynamics. By analogy with Hawaii and the Canary islands we confirm that deep-sea sediments can be effectively used to assess the age and scale of past landslide events giving an important contribution to the tsunami hazard assessment of this region.
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We thank the captains and crew of R/V Urania and Logachev. M. Ivanov and the TTR14 and TTR15 cruise scientific parties are also acknowledged for their help in data acquisition. ADR grant was founded within “Piattaforma di ricerca multidisciplinare su terremoti e vulcani (AIRPLANE)” n. RBPR05B2ZJ, founded by Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca. This work was supported by the DPC program: V2 — PAROXYSM. Authors are very grateful to G. De Alteriis and J. Trofimovs for their critical comments that greatly improved the paper.
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Roberto, A.D., Rosi, M., Bertagnini, A., Marani, M.P., Gamberi, F. (2010). Distal Turbidites and Tsunamigenic Landslides of Stromboli Volcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy). In: Mosher, D.C., et al. Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3071-9_58
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